Monday, July 26, 2010

He's my favorite comedian.We saw him a few weeks ago live and he was covered in Bling just like his 30 rock character, Tracy Jordan.He went on about his flights, personal life, relationships, politics and sexual experiences.Really funny set but a couple of times he went on rants and forgot what he was talking about or there wasn't any punchlines.He also thinks Barack Obama is a true gangsta.

Here are a few of my favorite quotes from his and Tiny Fey's show, 30 Rock on NBC:

-"What is this, Horseville? Because I’m surrounded by naysayers. Wordplay!"

-"Live every week like it's Shark Week."

-"I love this cornbread so much, I wanna take it behind a middle school and get it pregnant."

-"I got something on my mind grapes I need to talk to you about."

-"Stop eating people’s old French fries, pigeon! Have some self respect! Don’t you know you can fly?"

-"I can't read! I sign my name with an X! I once tried to make mashed potatoes with laundry detergent! I think I voted for Nader! NADER!"

Such fun shirts and at a fraction of the cost, I bought two :)An early birthday present to myself.

For those of you unfamiliar with Hautelook, every day they have different sale events that last for a few days. Each event features a different designer featuring jewelry, clothing, accessories, makeup and even foods. For a fraction of the cost, many stuff 40%-60% off!

Thursday, July 22, 2010

I thought I'd post some process and studio shots from the last year up until now.

carving a woodblock in my studio, I abandoned this print but I love this photo. Great color!

Working on Aquatints in the printmaking studio, here is a shot of hard ground on my copper etching plates. Also, sipping on Pom Wonderful's tea...tea is a studio staple of mine ;)

Here is a shot of my messy desk and lunch of sushi! I was trying to cut this really thick plastic to make shaped plates for printing (relief printmaking). It was a dumb idea because it took forever scoring the plastic over and over again to try to pop the cut pieces out. It gave my wrists a workout and I eventually settled on another method.

Here are a couple of shots from my studio at KU:These shots are from January, the stuff on my walls pretty much changes every week.These are mostly side/corner shots. The backwall has 8 windows.It's really spacious, bigger then my bedroom in my apartment.

And Last but not least,a process photo of what I'm working on now. Graphite drawings of body parts and organs.You're probably thinking "SAY WHAT?!" but my graduate school work is currently centered around the idea of medical anxieties that I have. I have this interest of abnormal growth within the human body, so I've been trying to create drawings of this. I've been creating what I consider to be new systems within the body. So I am compiling different body parts almost as if I was creating a new respiratory or nervous system.These pieces in the photo are still in the early stages, I'm making a bunch of smaller pieces to create a larger piece.

I'm teaching Intro to Drawing to new art and design majors this semester, and I'm interested to see if pushing drawing more everyday is going to continue changing my work.

Do you have a space where you make art or craft? I'd love to see it! Send me links to your photos :)

We would like to cordially invite you to our Pop Up @ U Street which will feature some of the Mid-Atlantic’s best artists and brightest young stars. DFK, Monument Music and Arts Festival, and Affinity lab have teamed up to put together an incredible lineup of artists to show and sell during a night of silent and live auctions. Live Music by:

Many artists showing have agreed to donate 20% of their proceeds to Dreams for Kids Dream Leaders Program, a leadership program that unites children of diverse backgrounds through community service and service learning via after-school clubs, in-school workshops, and Dream Leader Conferences.